At 10:55 AM 12/27/2011, you wrote:
There has been some confusion about the limits of chemical energy
storage with bulk palladium loaded with deuterium or hydrogen. The
limits are not "phenomenal." A typical cathode is about the size of
a small wooden match. A cathode of this size holds roughly as much
energy as a match (~1000 J), and produces maximum power of ~5 mW.
Compare this to the first reported example of heat after death from
a cathode of this size. It produced 1.1 MJ at 144 W, which greatly
exceeds the limits of chemical energy storage. See:
<http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Fleischmanreplytothe.pdf>http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/Fleischmanreplytothe.pdf
See also p. 12, footnote 24:
<http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJcoldfusiona.pdf>http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJcoldfusiona.pdf
I revise my opinion. I'd never looked at the actual numbers. While
the hydrogen contained in fully-load palladium is about as dense as
hydrogen metal, if the cathode is, say, 10 grams, loaded 1:1, that
would still be only 100 milligrams of hydrogen. About 30 KJ, for
combustion, as I read the numbers. Plenty of room for error in that!
